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ARTIFICIAL FEATHER. I x No. 325,870; Patented Sept. 8, 18.85.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

FRANCIS SEYMOUR, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OE ONE-HALF TO JOHN HINCHLIFFE, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

ARTIFICIAL FEATHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,870, dated September 8, 1885.

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To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that l, FRANCIS SEYMOUR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Paterson, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Article of Manufacture to be Used as an Ornament for Hats, for Trimmings,and Decorations, of which the following is a specification.

It is made and manufactured from fibrous materials in combination with some flexible material, so that it may be easily adjusted and arranged on hats and other articles of apparel, and used in miscellaneous decorations in imitation of a natural plume 0r feather.

My invention relates to improvements in artificial feathers. The quill, stem, or stalk of the feather or plume consists of a single tapering flexible cane, but may be made of any other flexible material to suit the purpose. e

The cross-fiber of the feather or plume is wire chenille, which is secured to the stem or quill, leaving the single flexible stem or quill entirely above the vanes or cross-fiber of the feather.

The chenille which forms the fibrous por tion of the feather may be tapering from the quill both ways to the end of the vane or edges of the feather, and is secured to the single tapering flexible quill by being braided thereto with any fibrous material.

The chenille may be silk, wire chenille, or

chenille made of any other fibrous material, and may be plain or figured, out or curled.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure l is a top view of'the feather, 0 representing the quill; a, the cross fibers or vanes of the feather, and b the fibrous material by which the vanes a are secured to the quill 0. ing the back of the feather.

The wire chenille being secured to the stem or quill, as above or otherwise, the feather or plume so formed maybe curled and shaped according to fancy.

The feather may be made of any size or color desired.

I do not claim a worsted feather such as set forth in the patent of Kloberg, No. 282,661, August 7, 1883; nor do I claim the split or double quill-feather, 'as shown in patent of Grodzensky', N0.'219,253, September 2, 1879.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.-

The combination of the wire chenille a,with the single tapering flexible quill 0, against one side of which quill c the wire chenille a V JOHN HINCHLIFFE, Jr. A. C. MOLAUGHLIN.

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